Roxbury Library to exhibit winning prejudice contest essays

ROXBURY TWP. The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), West
Morris Section, will present a special display featuring winning
entries from its 2001 "What Prejudice Means to Me" diversity
contest in the Morris County schools. The exhibit will appear
throughout the month of November in the display cases at the
Roxbury Public Library, 103 Main St., Succasunna. The diversity
contest, which was open to sixth graders in public, private an d
parochial schools throughout Morris County, drew more than 1,350
entries. Designed to complement class lessons on reducing
prejudice, the contest also dovetailed with the NCJW, West Morris
Section's mission to promote understanding of and appreciation for
diversity in our society. Chairperson of the 2001 diversity contest
was Lesley Frost of Morris Township. Students were encouraged to
submit original written entries, including poetry, essays, short
plays, short stories, or library research or original works of art,
such as drawings, paintings or photographs.

Among the topics addressed in these entries were prejudices
based on age, disability, ethnicity, family lifestyle, gender,
health problems, the Holocaust, physical appearance, race and
religion.

The students wrote and drew poignant, heartfelt and
extraordinarily insightful work about their own or others'
experience of prejudice as well as imagined experiences of
prejudice.

Teachers have observed that the contest is ideal for the sixth
grade because, at that age, children are becoming more aware of all
types of prejudice.

The National Council of Jewish Women is a volunteer
organization, inspired by Jewish values, that works through a
program of research, education, advocacy and community service to
improve the quality of life for women, children and families , and
strives to ensure individual rights and freedoms for all. The NCJW,
West Morris Section, sponsors a number of community service
projects in addition to the "What Prejudice Means to Me" diversity
contest.

Among them are marrow donor drives to sign up prospective marrow
donors for people seeking lifesaving bone marrow transplants;
volunteering at the Morristown so up kitchen and a Friendly
Visitors program at the Morris View Nursing Home in Morris Plains
and Franciscan Oaks Health Center in Denville.

The Roxbury Public Library is open Monday through Thursday from
9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday from
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Sun day from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

For further information about the NCJW, West Morris Section's
"What Prejudice Means to Me" diversity contest, call NCJW at (888)
895-3059.

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